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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

St. Louis to help women get out-of-state abortion access

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

St. Louis has joined the growing list of Democrat-led cities seeking to help women gain abortion access, even in red states that have largely banned the procedure.

Not long after Democratic Mayor Tishaura Jones on Thursday signed a measure providing $1 million for travel to abortion clinics in other states, Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sued to stop what he called a "blatantly illegal move to spend Missourians’ hard-earned tax dollars on out-of-state abortions.”

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